Labor Reform Needed to Curb Union Power in Mining Regions
The piece argues Congress must amend labor laws to curb what it calls a boss ruled UMW and union autocracy. It accuses James Petrillo and the CIO of wielding power, while criticizing the Wagner Act and employer reactions. It notes Supreme Court challenges and concerns about closed shops and labor relations boards.
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Washington
Jimmy Petrillo
Paul McNutt
Petrillo
Senate
House of Representatives
United States Congress
Supreme Court
Petrilio
Henry Kaiter
C. S
Cold wave chills Gulf Coast with below freezing in many areas
The cold spell did not reach the predicted lows in Louisiana and Mississippi but dropped below freezing from 10 degrees at West Point Mississippi to 27 in New Orleans. Early gardens froze in Baton Rouge and surrounding localities with no major crop damage reported. Bursts pipes and small fires were the main damages. more frost expected tonight across southeast Louisiana and adjacent Mississippi. Ice reported in New Orleans suburbs as temperatures fell.
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New Orleans
Weather Bureau
Louisana
Missisippi
Mercury
West Point
Miss
Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Mississippi
Frigid Monroe Morning Strikes With 14.6 Degree Low
A new Monroe cold spell kept residents in hardship as the thermometer at Selman Field reported a 14.6 degree low. Water supplies failed in many homes while officials warned the cold would ease as Wednesday progressed with an expected 20 degree night.
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Monroe
Selman Field
Weather Bureau
Haw
Madge Bellamy Admits Shooting Case Midst San Francisco Scandal
Soft eyed silent film star Madge Bellamy admitted firing three shots at A Stanwood Murphy a lumber company executive and former lover. Police report a felony assault charge followed his marriage to New York model June Alma. Bellamy explained anger over the wedding and planned to confront them in San Francisco.
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San Francisco
Madge Bellamy
Pacific Union Club
Nob Hill
Frank Lucey
A. Stanwood Murphy
Murphy
June Alma
New York
Baltimore
Misa Bellamy
Analysis of Nazi Press Acknowledges Russian Supremacy
Swiss press reports from Bern dated January 2 state German propaganda admits growing Russian material and manpower superiority on the Eastern Front. Adolf Hitler's Voelkacher Beobachter notes heavier Soviet forces and equipment, while Basler Nachrichten calls Stalingrad the war’s last act with heavy German losses.
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Bern
Switzerland
Berlin
Neue Zuercher Zeitung
Voelkacher Beobachter
Adolf Hitler
445 JAP NAVAL AND MERCHANT VESSELS SUNK
Allied submarines warships and aircraft have destroyed at least 445 Japanese naval and merchant ships. Reports from Axis sources say Japan faces shipping shortages as conquests span over 5000 miles of the Pacific. Berlin radio cites junk and bamboo raft transport attempts with fronts ready by February.
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New York
Japan
Pacific Ocean
Sot
Berlin
Tokyo Dispatch
Tokyo
Aleutians
Solomons
New Guinea
War Department
MacArthur
Navy
Knox
China Sea
Nippon
Local Draft Boards Gain Authority for Farm Deferments
Local draft boards gained power to defer agricultural workers deemed essential to food production. A new guideline lowers the required unit of production from 16 to potentially eight, with examples based on milk cows and acreage. Boards may set their own deferment standards and the plan adds more products to the essential list.
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Washington
Selective Service
Deneat of Agriculture
Warner Commission and
Farm Organizations
Stay of execution in Miley slaying delays Kentucky death sentences
In Frankfort on January 20, an eleventh hour stay saved Robert H. Anderson from the electric chair for the Marion Miley murder. Governor Keen Johnson would grant reprieves for co-defendants Tom Penney and Raymond Baxter, delaying their deaths to February 2 as the appeals court send Anderson’s case back for a possible new trial.
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Frankfort
Robert H. Anderson
Marion Miley
Keen Johnson
Anderson
Kentucky Court of Appeals
Lexington
Johnson
Tom Penney
Raymond Baxter
Appeals Court
Penney
Baxter
Brotherhoods Press for Emergency Board on Railway Wages
Washington officials clash over which agency will decide wage disputes as rail unions push for an emergency board. The unions want a panel to hear demands and report to the president, while railroads back the war labor board. The president created a nine person panel and allows selection of an emergency board if mediation fails. The economy stabilization order extends War Labor Board powers to all industries, creating competing jurisdictions.
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Washington
Raiload Brotherhoods
War Labor Board
William Mson
National Labor Relations Board
WLB
1 032 Japs Wiped Out On Guadalcanal Island
The navy reports 1 032 Japanese killed in five days of action on Guadalcanal in the Solomons. Allied air raids on Shortland Island damaged a Japanese cargo ship as well. Casualties were heavy as U S ground forces closed in on Henderson airfield amid stiff resistance.
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Washington
Guadalcanal
Solomons
Navy
Shortland Island
South Pacific
United States
Henderson Airfield
Australia
New Guinea
Sanananda
Sanananda Point
Sanananda Road
Marcantonio Blocked From Key Judiciary Panel
In Washington on January 20 a strong southern bloc thwarted Vito Marcantonio of New York, the sole American Labor member, from joining the powerful judiciary committee. The Democratic committee had proposed his appointment, but party caucus opposition, led by Louisiana's C F E McKenzie, defeated the move in the party’s first intra caucus clash of the new session.
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Washington
Vito Marcantonio
Important
Judiciary Committee
Democratic Committee On Committees
Marcantonio
Congress
C. F E. McKenzie
Louisiana
McKenzie
American Labor Party
Reid Case Ready for Federal Jury
William Thomas Reid a former oil operator from Shreveport and Arkansas stands trial in federal court on threats against President Roosevelt. He testified denying any threats and denied knowing Baron Edgar von Spiegel while witnesses claimed he boasted of links to the German official. The judge planned to instruct the jury.
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Shreveport
William Thomas Reid
Arkansas
Roosevelt
United States District Court
Reid
Ben C. Dawkins
Baron Edgar von Spiegel
New Orleans
Tojo Illness Report Delays Japanese Diet Recess
The Office of War Information reported Tokyo radio said Premier Hideki Tojo is ill and Japan’s Diet would recess until January 27. The broadcast noted speeches by cabinet ministers and planned addresses by Tojo and Foreign Minister Tani, with a rare recess extension after New Year.
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New York
Office of War Information
Tokyo Radio
Hideki Tojo
Federal Communications Commission
Harbin
Manchukuo
OWI
Tojo
Masayuki Tani
Submarine note on double sinkings near Japan
Seattle dispatch details an American submarine under Lt Cmdr Thomas B. Klakring who, after sinking two ships in 69 seconds near the Japanese convoy, remained on the surface for an hour and a half to exchange shots with merchantmen before planes forced a dive. Ensign Gilson Rohrbach recalls the patrol.
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Seattle
Thomas B. Klakring
Japan
Gilson Rohrback
Rohrback
Rohrbach
Jones says capital plentiful in state banks
Baton Rouge reports Governor Sam Jones noting vast capital in Louisiana banks for investment. Bank deposits rose to about 915 million by December 11 1942 from 540 million on July 1 1940 while only 15 percent of resources were in loans and discounts.
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Baton Rouge
Sam Jones
Louisiana
Wilfred J. Regnaud
Jones
Regnaud
Reds Advance With Mounting Force In Two New Offensives
Moscow dispatch reports the Red Army pushing two new offensives toward Kharkov in Ukraine and along a corridor to Leningrad. Soviet sources say large German forces are encircled and weakened, with heavy Russian attacks on Volkhov south of Leningrad and on the Leningrad front. British sources note German divisions badly mauled and satellite divisions largely destroyed or rendered nonfunctional.
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Henry C. Cassidy
Moscow
Red Army
Kharkov
Ukraine
Leningrad
Voronezh
Red Star
Army
Volkhov
London
Filip Ivanovich Golikov
Monser
Manych
Donets
Miners Vote to Stay Out as UMW Warns of Expulsion
United Mine Workers warned striking anthracite miners they face dishonorable expulsion if they do not return to work by noon tomorrow under Roosevelt's order. District 1 executive committee said the unauthorized stoppage remains confined as thousands voted to stay out amid anger at government negotiating delays.
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Congress
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Wilkes-Barre
Roosevelt
District 1
Karl Kratz
Flier Killed When Plane Crashes At Sea Near Georgia
Ensign Harry A. Nunez 22 was killed Tuesday when his plane crashed in the Atlantic near Jekyll Island Georgia about 65 miles north of Jacksonville officials at the naval air station said Nunez was commissioned at Corpus Christi Texas last November trained in Miami and had been at the Jacksonville base since Christmas Day He attended Southwestern Louisiana Institute and was the son of Mr and Mrs Abra Nunez of Cameron Louisiana
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Jacksonville
Fla
Harry A. Nunez
Atlantic Ocean
Jekyll Island
Georgia
Here
Jacksonville Naval Air Station
Nunez
Corpus Christi
Tex
Miami
Southwestern Louisiana Institute
Abra Nunez
Cameron
Peyrouton Chosen to Replace Laval Foes in Algeria
North Africa dispatches report Marcel Peyrouton named Algerian governor general replacing Yves Chatel to root out Laval sympathizers. The move aims to install firm administration while Rommel retreats toward Tunisia as British Eighth Army nears Tripoli.
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North Africa
Erwin Rommel
Hadlong
Tunisia
Marcel Peyrouton
Pierre Laval
Peyrouton
Yves Chatel
Algeria
Laval
Oval
Rommel
Cairo
el- Alamein
Tuenisia
Eighth Army
Tripoli
Mussolini
Sahara
Libya
State to test 15 000 civil service workers in Louisiana
In Louisiana, director Willard E Parker proposes compulsory quality examinations for about 15 000 permanent civil service workers starting January 30. Most staff will face non competitive tests while 200 supervisors take theirs a week earlier. Tests will be held across state institutions and colleges in cities including New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Shreveport and more.
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Baton Rouge
Willard E Parker
Sewiat
Parker
New Orleans
Houma
Hammond
Lafayette
Lake Charles
Alexandria
Natchitoches
Shreveport
Roseton
Monroe
Winnsbern
Germany keeps submarines busy as U boat threat grows
British observers report Hitler maintains 200 U boats at sea with 15 to 20 new subs built monthly. Germany boasts longer sea patrols and larger U boats capable of delivering torpedoes, supplies, and even new crew members. Lord Cranborne cautions the U boat campaign may not peak soon. In New York a one year old girl was found slain in a West Side apartment with a hammer nearby, police say.
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London
Adolf Hitler
United Nations
Britain
Germany
Lord Cranborne
Privy Seal
House of Lords
New York
West Side
Martha James
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Hissians
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Basler Nachrichten
Miley Slayer
Guadalcanal Island
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Tin
Peyrouton Chosen
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